11 – Star Trek (2009)

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Mashup Weekend: Picard & The Prime Timeline Strike Back | TrekMovie.com.

Target Exclusive Star Trek Packaging from TrekMovie on Vimeo.

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SANTA MONICA, California — J.J. Abrams’ rebooted Star Trek could hardly have been more successful with critics and the general public, but some Trekkers found the film’s script to be rife with plot holes that spoke more to convenience than good storytelling.

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And the sad thing is, the animated series footage is more exciting then the actual trailer footage.

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Fedcon 2009 Opening Ceremony Star Trek Animation from Tobias Richter on Vimeo.

The webcomic Pictures For Sad Children has a humorous look at time travel that I feel the writers of Star Trek (2009) likely would agree with.

So, why was a decision made to craft an alternate reality for the show, altering key figure storylines, altering inner-personal conflicts and infuse it with enough action to choke a vole? The answer is quite simple: J.J. Abrams is a Star Wars fan, not a Star Trek fan. He doesn’t care if a legion of fans have worshipped and adored all that is Star Trek. He wants to make boatloads of money and appeal to everyone in the entire world. There isn’t anything wrong with that, but all of it could have been achieved without ripping the heart out of long-lived Trekkies in the process.
– Star Trek Film Review – The Oscar Guy

Last month we reported that Paramount launched an Easter egg contest to find the hidden R2D2 in the new Star Trek movie. Now they have revealed where to find the Star Wars droid, details below plus we list many of the other easter eggs in the Star Trek movie.
– Location of R2-D2 Easter Egg Revealed + More Star Trek Easter Eggs | TrekMovie.com

Yet another reason to hate this most recent Star Trek Movie?  Trekmovie.com lists at least 40 cameos and ‘easter eggs’ that were in it.  Want to know why the subbasement shutin was giggling like a schoolgirl through the whole movie?  It’s because he noticed :

• Sulu tells Kirk his combat training is in fencing, in the TOS episode “The Naked Time” Sulu shows off his fencing abilities

which by the way I found hilarious because immediately after he says he has fencing abilities, he pulls out a collapsable katana.

As I troll the internet’s depths for people that didn’t like the most recent Star Trek movie, I’ve found several misconceptions that lead to confusion by some people, leading them to hate Star Trek (2009), let me address two of them here in this post. Mind you, there are plenty of reasons to hate this film, I’d rather people hate it for reasons that make sense.

There are going to be spoilers here.

1.) The Truth Bug:

Many people are concerned and/or confused with this truth bug, thinking that it’s somehow related to the ear bug from Star Trek 2.  While I can understand the confusion, in reality the Truth Bug in this movie bares much more of a resemblance to the bug in the penultimate episode of TNG Season one.  Could be a related species, or could be the same species, just not sentient.

2.) The Red Matter:

Couldn’t help wondering about it. If a drop of a certain material can destroy an entire planet, why would you want to amass 300 gallons of it? Did I miss something?--Hank Fox

Yep, a single drop is all it takes to turn a planet into a black hole.  This misconception is easily cleared up though with the realization that the red matter was for use on a sun, and was a last ditch effort to save Romulous from a galaxy wide supernova (yeah, ok, that’s wtf worthy still).  Here in our local star system, the sun is massive compared to the earth, able to fit over 1,000,000 earths inside of it.  So, first and foremost, you’re going to want to bring as much of the red matter as possible, becuase you might only get one shot at saving the entire galaxy from this galactic supernova.  Secondly, you’re going to need a LOT of it if a drop of it will only effect something as relatively small as a planet.

3.) The Star Fleet shipyards:

And who the hell builds a starship ON THE GROUND, for FSMsakes?–Randomfactor

Are you honestly telling me that you’re watching a Star Trek movie and you’re unaware that they have anti-gravity?  Why launch everything into space and build it there when you can build it closer to the materials, test and build it in a safer environment, and then send it on it’s merry way when you’re done!